The Super Mario Galaxy Movie was as good as its name. Plumbers Mario and Luigi led the film to a cosmically super five-day start, blasting to $190.1 million in North America and a staggering $372.5 million opening frame worldwide. Wowser, Bowser.
You might say, “Well, sure, that’s all well and good—but The Super Mario Galaxy Movie opened on Wednesday. It had an extra two days to collect all those gold coins.” And you’d be right. But even if you look at the traditional three-day weekend, Super Mario Galaxy still managed to snag the biggest weekend of 2026, domestically speaking, plumbing a staggering $130.9 million from North American box-office pipes. That’s a toad-a-ly awesome beginning.
The Super Mario Galaxy Movie knocked two-time weekend winner Project Hail Mary from the top slot—but the sci-fi flick didn’t slide far. Hail Mary landed softly in second place, earning another $30.7 million stateside. Overall, the film has earned $217.2 million domestically and a global gross of $420.8 million. Hardly a rocky ride.
The wedding-themed The Drama—somewhat confusingly, a comedy—spent its honeymoon weekend in third place, pocketing $14.4 million stateside. While those numbers don’t reach the same stratosphere as Super Mario Galaxy or Hail Mary, it’s still the third-highest debut in distributor A24’s history, right behind Civil War ($25.5 million) and Marty Supreme ($17.7 million after its wide release).
Hoppers jumped down to No. 4 this weekend, gobbling up another $5.8 million stateside to push its domestic total to $149.6 million. Another holdover, Reminders of Him, landed in fifth with $2.2 million (which brings its four-week gross to nearly $45.4 million).
A Great Awakening, a Christian flick from Sight & Sound Films, just barely missed the Top Five. It earned $2.1 million over the weekend—which, when you think about it, ain’t too shabby for a film predicated on an evangelist who’s been dead for more than 250 years.
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